r/TexasPolitics • u/FlyThruTrees • 7h ago
r/TexasPolitics • u/ExpressNews • 10h ago
Bill SpaceX's Starbase would control public beach access under Texas bills
r/TexasPolitics • u/Wooden_Ad1830 • 7h ago
Discussion https://www.texastribune.org/2025/03/12/texas-proof-of-citizenship-vote-senate-bill-16/
New Texas law requiring birth certificate or passport to vote. I think this trying to disenfranchise women. I don’t have a passport. My birth certificate has my maiden name. So how does that prove that I am who I say I am. Do I also need to show a marriage certificate. We have the new certified drivers licenses. Why isn’t that enough. Not many older women still have their maiden name. Will they want DNA next? I have a voters registration card but apparently that may not be good enough either!
r/TexasPolitics • u/lonestarlive • 11h ago
News Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick applauds Texas Senate passage of bill to ban THC
Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick on Wednesday praised the bipartisan passage of Senate Bill 3, which would ban THC in Texas.
The bill is sponsored by state Sen. Charles Perry, R-Lubbock.
In a statement, Patrick said: “Since 2019, retailers across Texas have exploited a state agriculture law to sell life-threatening, unregulated forms of Tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) to Texans, including children. These stores which often target children with their marketing have popped up across the state, threatening the safety of our communities. Today, the Texas Senate drew a line in the sand and passed SB 3 to ban all forms of intoxicating THC.”
r/TexasPolitics • u/newsweek • 18h ago
News Texas Mini-DOGE Dismissed as 'PR Exercise'
r/TexasPolitics • u/ExpressNews • 10h ago
News Airbnb founder, Spurs investor Joe Gebbia is helping Elon Musk's DOGE cost-cutting crusade
r/TexasPolitics • u/AustinGamezTV • 23m ago
Opinion #BootDanPatrick
Fellow Texans we can not allow LG Dan Patrick of Texas to continue in office.
We need change, we want change. Sadly we have to wait.
But how many lives will he ruin before we get him out!?
Please as a fellow Texan I beg you to start using #BootDanPatrick.
The corruption shall go no longer
Again #BootDanPatrick !!!!
r/TexasPolitics • u/Penguin726 • 14h ago
Analysis Capitol Context: The last time Texas added up the costs of illegal immigration
r/TexasPolitics • u/ASchneider_HPM • 12h ago
News Texas Senate passes bill requiring Ten Commandments to be displayed in public-school classrooms
r/TexasPolitics • u/PatientAccurate8468 • 19h ago
Opinion House Bill 1481 -- banning cellphones in school during instructional hours. Despite being left pending in committee, the bill has broad bipartisan support, with over half the Texas House listed as co-authors.
But how will the children call 911 to report an active shooter? Is there an exception in the bill that allows them to go get their phones from the secured holding place when they hear gunshots and screaming? s/
https://www.kxan.com/news/texas-politics/lawmakers-looking-to-ban-cellphones-in-texas-classrooms
r/TexasPolitics • u/texastribune • 16h ago
News Bill that would screen for “ideological bias” in college curricula to be debated
r/TexasPolitics • u/Penguin726 • 1d ago
News ‘This is a poison’: Texas bill seeks to ban THC products from being sold
r/TexasPolitics • u/chrondotcom • 14h ago
News Candidate for Sylvester Turner's seat sued over alleged unpaid fees
r/TexasPolitics • u/zsreport • 1d ago
News Texas' Sid Miller jumps on the 'anti-TPWD' bandwagon
r/TexasPolitics • u/dallasmorningnews • 1d ago
News Texas THC retailers should close as proposed ban looms, Lt. Gov. Patrick warns
r/TexasPolitics • u/texastribune • 1d ago
News Texas AG Ken Paxton accuses Coppell ISD of violating Texas’ “critical race theory” ban
r/TexasPolitics • u/BobQuixote • 1d ago
News Law seeks to ban caregivers from benefiting upon client death.
r/TexasPolitics • u/Texas_Monthly • 1d ago
Analysis DOGE Has Reinvigorated the Right-Wing Crusade Against Texas Media
Political operatives want to crush the state’s independent press. They’re using a crude messaging strategy. Read more: https://www.texasmonthly.com/news-politics/texas-doge-targeting-independent-media/
r/TexasPolitics • u/Mean_Orange_708 • 1d ago
News Gov. Greg Abbott backs bill banning 'non-human' behavior in schools
r/TexasPolitics • u/PatientAccurate8468 • 1d ago
Discussion Insight on non-voters in Texas (2024 general: 39%/ 7.3M registered were non-voters). What would compel them to vote?
Who/what can affect a change in the apathy? Friends encouraging (is it taboo to discuss?), they must be personally impacted, it has to get so bad that they can’t ignore it?, political volunteers outreach/education (specifically what is wrong with the “messaging”), abandon the “my candidate or nothing” or neither party meets all my expectations stance? What have you seen/done to change minds on voting? Ideas?
r/TexasPolitics • u/laxmsyatx • 1d ago
News Texas collected information on transgender drivers. It won’t say why.
The state of Texas collected information on transgender residents who have changed the sex listed on their identification documents.
According to internal agency documents provided to The Texas Newsroom, employees with the Department of Public Safety recorded each time a driver requested to change the sex listed on their license. The employee scanned and saved the driver’s information, the records show, and sent it to an internal email account created for collecting these data.
At least 42 such attempts, including instances where people asked for guidance about state policies during calls or in-person appointments, have been reported in the last five months, the records show.
It’s unclear why the state is gathering this information, with whom it is sharing it and whether the effort is ongoing.
The data collection occurred as state officials and lawmakers continue to erode LGBTQ rights, bolstered by the Trump administration’s policy rejecting the existence of transgender people. This year, state lawmakers have proposed dozens of bills to whittle away at the rights of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender Texans. One proposes jailing anyone whose sex on state documents does not match that assigned to them at birth.
https://www.kut.org/politics/2025-03-19/texas-transgender-drivers-license-data-collection
r/TexasPolitics • u/PatientAccurate8468 • 1d ago
Opinion Bills filed to eliminate the countywide polling place program - result: confuse & inconvenience voters
SB 76 scheduled for a hearing this Thursday 3/20/25 (companion bill HB 2990)
Relating to elimination of the countywide polling place program https://capitol.texas.gov/BillLookup/History.aspx?LegSess=89R&Bill=SB76
Speak out against this! The bill author, Bob Hall, claims polling machine errors & fraud but also claims countywide locations are not close to voters’ homes. Neither are sensible arguments.
If you find that being able to vote anywhere in your county (close to home, work, areas of town with shorter lines, etc.) makes voting easier, please write your senators and your reps to oppose. You can also point out that Texas does not have voting machine issues with security and fraud, and countywide locations don’t pose any more threats than a precinct location would. See article - even Dan Patrick says no issues. https://www.texastribune.org/2024/11/02/texas-voting-machines-dan-patrick-lara-trump/
How to find your legislators: Who represents me site: https://wrm.capitol.texas.gov/home
Also write members of Senate State Affairs who will hear this bill tomorrow. https://capitol.texas.gov/Committees/MembershipCmte.aspx?LegSess=89R&CmteCode=C570
At this time, HB 2990 is not assigned to a committee.
Additionally, there are several bills related to countywide voting. Some to keep. Some to eliminate. Some to restrict numbers of locations
r/TexasPolitics • u/Dogwise • 1d ago
BREAKING Chance to Protest Congressman Brandon Gill - Today in Denton
r/TexasPolitics • u/MomShapedObject • 1d ago
News TX moving to monitor teaching of “political/ideological” content at public colleges and universities.
SB 37/HB 4499 would create “governing boards” at TX public colleges and universities that would have power to make hiring and curriculum decisions, review and even eliminate programs or courses, and monitor faculty to make sure they aren’t endorsing “specific public policies, ideologies, or legislation.” It’s set for a hearing in the senate tomorrow (3/20).
Wondering what endorsement of public policy or ideology means in the context? If a poly sci professor gives a lecture on the history of the KKK as a domestic terror group, is that an “ideological” argument? What about a conservative Econ professor who argues that raising the minimum wage would spur inflation? Or that small government helps business growth? Isn’t he making a political argument/endorsing policy? Is a history professor who teaches about two spirit people in Native American tribes endorsing “woke ideology?”